Arno Hilf


Franz Arno Hilf was a German violin virtuoso. Among others, he was Konzertmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and primarius of the Gewandhaus Quartet.

Life

Hilf came from a family of musicians. He was born in 1858 as the son of a musician in Bad Elster. His brother Robert Hilf, his uncles Christian Adam Arno Hilf and Christoph Wolfgang Hilf and his cousins Oskar Korndörfer and Ernst Korndörfer were also musicians and all played in the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
He received violin lessons from his uncle Christian Adam Arno Hilf and piano lessons from his father. At Leipzig Conservatory he studied from 1872 to 1876 with Ferdinand David, Engelbert Röntgen and Henry Schradieck.
From 1878 to 1888 he was second concertmaster at the Bolshoi Theater and teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1878 to 1885 he was second violinist in the quartet of the Russian Music Society and from 1880 until 1915 in the Hřímalý Quartett in Moscow.. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007,,.
He then returned to Germany and became concertmaster of the in Sondershausen and teacher at the local conservatory. From 1889 to 1891 he was concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and at the same time Primarius. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007,, of the Gewandhaus Quartet. He was also first violin teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1892.
Among his students were Walter Bach, Clemens Meyer, Gabriel del Orbe, Heinrich Schachtebeck, Gustav Schmidt and Hans Stieber.

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